Judge orders Inkster to cut water rates, refund overcharges

12:06 AM,
Oct. 25, 2013

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Inkster residents and businesses will be receiving refunds for overcharges on their water bills after a judge ruled that the rates were too high and ordered the city to reduce them.

Byron Nolen, the attorney for plaintiff Terrance Trahey, said retired Wayne County Circuit Judge Paul Teranes, who presided over the bench trial last week, ordered a reduction in water rates from $15.30 per unit to $11.96.

The lawsuit was led by Trahey, who received a $6,000 water bill last fall. He argued that new digital water meters were not working properly and the city's sharply higher water rates were in ...